In the space of a few months, Blake Sanders has lost his job, his only son to suicide, and his marriage. A year later, it's gotten so bad that he can only face the world at night, working menial jobs washing dishes and delivering newspapers, lost in depression and grief.

Blake's world is turned upside down again on a cold November night, when an elderly woman on his newspaper route is brutally stabbed to death and Blake is charged with her murder. Faced with life in prison, his only hope is to find the real killer.

In a desperate attempt to unravel the mystery, Blake learns that his friend had stumbled onto secrets that have been buried beneath Capitol Hill for 150 years. Secrets that are now being disturbed by the construction of the new light rail tunnel. Secrets that will shake the government of Seattle. Secrets that foreign agents will kill for.

On the run from the police and murderers, Blake finds a chance to heal his grief and reclaim his life—if he can stay alive long enough to unearth the truth.

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2013 International Thriller Award Nominee

In the space of a few months, Blake Sanders has lost his job, his only son to suicide, and his marriage. A year later, it's gotten so bad that he can only face the world at night, working menial jobs washing dishes and delivering newspapers, lost in depression and grief.

Blake's world is turned upside down again on a cold November night, when an elderly woman on his newspaper route is brutally stabbed to death and Blake is charged with her murder. Faced with life in prison, his only hope is to find the real killer.

In a desperate attempt to unravel the mystery, Blake learns that his friend had stumbled onto secrets that have been buried beneath Capitol Hill for 150 years. Secrets that are now being disturbed by the construction of the new light rail tunnel. Secrets that will shake the government of Seattle. Secrets that foreign agents will kill for.

On the run from the police and murderers, Blake finds a chance to heal his grief and reclaim his life—if he can stay alive long enough to unearth the truth.

Über den Autor und weitere Mitwirkende

Michael W. Sherer grew up on a farm in northern Illinois, went to prep school and college “back east,” and lived in Chicago for twenty years. After stints as a manual laborer, dishwasher, bartender, restaurant manager, commercial photographer, magazine editor, and public relations executive, Sherer decided life should imitate art and became a novelist. He is a member of International Thriller Writers, Mystery Writers of America, and the Authors Guild. In addition to Night Blind, the first thriller in the Blake Sanders series, he has published six novels in the Emerson Ward mystery series, including An Option On Death, Little Use For Death, Death Came Dressed In White, A Forever Death,Death Is No Bargain,and Death On A Budget, as well as a stand-alone suspense novel, Island Life. He’s now hard at work on his fourth Blake Sanders thriller and a new young adult thriller, Blind Rage. He and his wife and the youngest of their four children now live in the Seattle suburbs.

This novel started well enough establishing setting and theme ... but then it became a major read drawing one back 150 plus years. The woman who had planned to take her own life by jumping off the bridge in the beginning of the novel became lost in the history of the tunnels under the city of Seattle in the 1800's.But I kept on reading ... . There was something compelling about the story line that I could not ignore.It didn't take me long to finish the novel and I am very glad I did. In hindsight, it was too convoluted, almost unbelievable in many places, yet passionately investigated by a man who previously had lost it all but was trying to prove that he was innocent of murder.The whole premise of this novel is mammoth in scale and I compliment the author for his attempt to create a novel with more substance than that which we have come to expect.

Michael W. Sherer's heart-pounding NIGHT BLIND is a hall of mirrors conceived by a master. It's not often you can find an author you can depend on, one you trust to give you a great story. There's plenty of intrigue in NIGHT BLIND, from an unaccounted-for ship from a previous century to a bloody secret buried in the very heart of Seattle. The answers are often more painful than palliative--but disgraced businessman-turned-newspaper deliveryman Blake Sanders is the only person who can untangle the story.

The intricate plot of NIGHT BLIND is many-faceted and wonderfully conceived. From the moment I met Blake, I felt a visceral kinship with him. He carries the story with grace, decency, and--sometimes--ferocity.

As the evidence piles up, implicating Sanders in one horrific killing after another, he must risk death to save the woman he loves.

NIGHT BLIND is a chilling labyrinth of lies that only a good-yet-damaged man like Blake Sanders would have a prayer's-chance of solving. He does it with panache.

Some far-fetched plots work; some don't. And while Sherer handles the language fairly well, the plot and the character exposition were clumsy. It took forever to learn of the protagonist's personal history, and the wait did not create greater suspense. The plot was along the lines of "National Treasure" but without the intrigue. And how the Navy got involved was never really clear. About mid-way through the book, his similes got away from him and were so labored and strained as to stop me in my tracks.

Over all, not a bad bargain Kindle purchase, but needed some tightening up to really hold water.

4,0 von 5 SternenNight Blind. Yeah, I guess you could say that this one really is....

VonWhiteCougaram 30. Mai 2015 - Veröffentlicht auf Amazon.com

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This was a good read. Full of surprises with a hopeful outcome. The pace was steady and the characters were developed, although the main character was a little, how can I say, hard to fathom or stomach, maybe a little too pathetic. His problems leave one wondering how he has continued to exist throughout all this time. But, still, a good read, and by the end, when it became apparent that there would be a second installment, I wanted to read it as well. So, try this one folks. I think you will like it.

Brisk pacing and meticulous research carry this set-in-Seattle thriller along a long trail of tired thriller-fiction tropes -- though, at times, over the top.

"Night Blind" is ambitiously but preposterously over-plotted -- sometimes to the point of reader confusion. And the characters are pure cardboard. Blake Sanders, the onetime political operative whose trials-of-Job past tragedies have turned him into a nighttime paperboy, feels like a standard-issue jut-jawed hero cobbled together out of the collective advice of a number of how-to-write-compelling-fiction books. The villains aren't well-developed, and the psychopathology that drives them isn't terribly interesting.

And Sherer ought to be sent back to Remedial Simile School. Lines like "Half-baked thoughts tumbled around my head like socks in a dryer" and "... rage shaking him like a sock in the mouth of a terrier" are just plain painful to read.

Still, Sherer is a master craftsman, and he keeps the plot points deftly juggled while pushing the narrative along at NASCAR speed in the best thriller tradition. And the end notes show how much care he put into the research of the novel. His depictions of police procedure, deep-bore tunneling, Seattle history, and U.S. Navy machinations of the 1800s have the ring of absolute authenticity -- to the point that I found it believable that hundreds of millions of dollars in gold nuggets COULD have been buried some hundred and fifty years ago beneath a home in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.

"Night Blind" has its flaws. But it's fun. And I find I would read more thriller novels by Michael W. Sherer.